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^ He's tried it both using Chrome and Firefox, but his system still freezes.

It's not only the browser that freezes, but rather the entire system.

Everytime he follows a video link (like on youtube for example), the page loads, but once the video has loaded and supposed to begin to play, his entire system freezes. Even Ctrl + Alt + Del doesn't work.

Disabling hardware accelerated video playback
While we work with Adobe to smooth out a few kinks, the following steps will allow you to disable hardware-accelerated playback, and get back to watching YouTube videos:

Right-click in the middle of the video below (or on the on the video you're having issues with)

Drivers / FirmwaresAs recommended in most forums, drivers for graphic card are up to date.
Even motherboard firmware has been successfully flashed with last ASUS version.Except for integrated DELL SMARTCARD READER in keyboard.

Symptoms
Hard freeze on any browser (Firefox, IE, Chrome - all up to date versions).
Seems to be always linked to FLASH PLAYER utilisation (pages using flash video content or flash modules)
Triggered by mouse scroll or mouse click.
Hard freeze, no BSOD, mouse and KB not responding, sound hashing for 2-3 seconds then silence. Hard reset needed.

System Freeze/Crash when viewing streaming videos online

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Thanks for your time.

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